Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 Released

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 milestone.

This is a public beta. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who may be…

Your favorite Linux file system?

There's a poll over at linux.inet.hr trying to discover which of the available file systems for Linux are the most popular. Come visit, vote, see the results immediately. More votes - more correct…

Geotagging files with libferris and Google Earth

Geotagging is the association of geographic location information with an object. A geotag comprises three pieces of information: a name and longitude and latitude values. Once files are geotagged…

Pointsec unveils new version of Linux encryption software

Pointsec, the global leader and the provider of the de facto standard for enterprise security software for laptop and desktop PCs, PDAs and smart¬phones, today announced the latest version of its…

VMware and Linux - friends forever?

The fact that VMware's first ever product, VMware Workstation, was based on Linux has meant that the company has always been very Linux-friendly. In fact, many argue that VMware's re-invention of…

First look at Linux Greenphone

Trolltech is the company that brought developers the Linux-based mobile application platform Qtopia, based on its Qt platform. In mid-August it also used the LinuxWorld conference to announce the…

New IBM Supercomputer to use Linux

IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, the…

Linux-based WiMAX board support packages to hit market

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA), Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), and Hopling Technologies announced today that the three companies have further enhanced their working…

GNOME 2.16 Released

The GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.16, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination…

Wind River Flying High With Linux

Software developer Wind River Systems has been getting some traction lately, as seen with the strength of its second-quarter results. On the news, the stock price rose 6% to $10.83. But the big…